Sold out in my size and I’m so sad (Fashionbrand Co)

Benjamin Franklin Perkins, The Future of America, 1988 Oil on canvas 34 x 34 in 86.36 x 86.36 cm (Pan American Art Projects)

Shunbaisai Hokuei 春梅斎北英, Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa, on a Broken Lantern, Referring to Katsushika Hokusai’s Hyaku monogatari (One Hundred Ghost Stories), 1832 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Frontispiece to Matthew Hopkins’ Discovery of Witches (1648) showing two witches calling out the names of their demons while Hopkins watches above (Public Domain Review)

Is he dead yet? “The Promoter and Jailor,” La Danse Macabre, Guy Marchant, 1486 edition.

Photo by Etienne Girardet

Antifa.

Professor Alisha Wormsley‘s “There Are Black People in the Future” billboard

Antifaschistischer Schutzwall Propaganda (Anti-Fascist Protective Barrier) by Trudee Hill (2010) Berlin wall fragment, sterling silver, and stainless steel.

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets, 2019 Digital animation, Lava rocks, LCD panels, media players, controllers, aluminum profiles, ABS, rubber, dimensions variable

RIP Pearl Paint on Canal, New York Central on 3rd, and now, Kremer Pigmente on West 29th. I could have sworn that a friend worked at a tiny Golden Artist Colors retail space in Alphabet City in the 90s (10th Street?), but I can't find any record of it. Photo: Sarah Kate Kramer for WNYC

Fernando Botero, Official Portrait of the Military Junta, 1971

I have 2 mental health professionals, one for talk therapy and one for meds. All three of us have been freaking out since 47 highjacked the government and I kind of feel like I’m doing the best.

Criterion is featuring a bunch of nunsploitation films on the channel right now and I’m all in.

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Roy Stryker was head of the FSA’s photo-documentary project during the Great Depression. Negatives he liked were selected to be printed; those he didn’t were marred by a hole punch, which left black voids in place of hog’s bellys, industrial landscapes, and the faces of farmworkers. (Atlas Obscura)

Betye Saar, Liberation of Aunt Jemima: Cocktail, 1973. Brooklyn Museum

Everyone who is against fascism is an anti-fascist.

If antifascists are the enemy, what are you?

So just to clarify, the people who show up to fight fascism are now terrorists, according to the regime?

Elliot and Erick Jimenez, Ibeji, 2022

Firelei Báez, Fire wood pretending to be fire, February 12, 2013 (Studio Museum in Harlem)

In the words of the great anarchist Mikhail Bakunin: “I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.”

There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Those who tell you ‘Do not put too much politics in your art’ are not being honest. If you look very carefully you will see that they are the same people who are quite happy with the situation as it is… What they are saying is don’t upset the system.” Chinua Achebe to James Baldwin (1980)

Day 236. The President is a fascist who is covering up evidence he sexually abused children and wants to end freedom of the press. The Republican Party is unified behind him.

I’m watching Alien Earth, where Timothy Olyphant plays Kirsh, the synthetic chief scientist. He has zero empathy because he’s a robot so he watches the mayhem unfold with a completely unperturbed affect. This week I wish I could do that, instead of being wracked with anxiety.

David Alfaro Siqueiros, Self-Portrait with Mirrror, 1937

From “The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti,” a series of twenty-three paintings by Ben Shahn (1931-32)

If I had more money than god I’d be wearing Iris van Herpen to go to the grocery store and have the fiercest haircut imaginable but everybody’s different

So on Monday the President of the US said that he believed that the "lesser" crime of domestic violence should not be counted in crime statistics. In 2025. Not a big deal. And nobody pushed back on this remark. My god. Alice Neel, "Peggy" (1949), oil on canvas.

Lauren Bowker of Unseen used her Spectra eye makeup to make facial recognition software glitch theunseenbeauty.co.uk/blogs/news/m...

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Paula Rego, Swallows the Poisoned Apple, 1995

I wonder if members of this administration watch the recruitment video from The Parallax View to get hyped up for public appearances.

I love these Hello ICE posters from Chicago - we need a Boston version.

Paul Anthony Smith, two images from “Melodies from a running spring” installation, 2025

Maria Gaspar, Disappearance Jail (2020-ongoing), inkjet print on rice paper. For the last ten years, issues of mass incarceration and Cook County jail in Chicago, which is the largest single-site jail in the United States, have featured heavily in the artist’s practice.

Herbert Gustav Schmalz, Queen Zenobia’s Last Look Upon Palmyra, ca. 1888, Art Gallery of South Australia

One side of a phone conversation Libertarian or paranoid He’s serious Oh, sweet! Mmmmm Well, it’s not so much “need” Always a good friend to have Yea Yea The answer there is 10-15-20

Thomas Hart Benton, America Today (1930–1931) It’s Labor Day

I wonder if politicians would finally do something about gun violence if groups of CEOs were regularly murdered at work. Because they certainly don’t care about our children.

all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals

Sho Shibuya at Unit London from August 20 to September 21 with “Falling From The Sky,” a collection of works covered in trompe l’oeil droplets. Sublime.

Rigoberto A. González, “Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas” (2020) was among the artworks targeted in a statement from the White House on August 21, 2025. (photo courtesy the artist) Source: Hyperallergic

Lois Dodd, Burning House With Clapboards, 2007. Oil on linen.

averyreview.com/issues/57/em... File under “there’s so much I don’t know.”

Video still from The Hedge of Halomancy, 2025 (courtesy of Hylozoic/Desires). The project investigates the Great Salt Hedge of India, a 4,000-kilometer hedge of plums and plants built by the British empire across present-day India and Pakistan in order to prevent the smuggling of salt.

Nick Cave, Amalgam (blue), 2015 Three-color lithograph, dusted with pearlescent powder